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Quotes About Inspiration

The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.
~ Theophile Gautier
Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.
~ John Philip Sousa
What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?
~ Sarah Bernhardt
Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization.
~ Robert Barron
The playful search for beauty.
~ Eva Zeisel
the stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have i seen so many. i always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but i was sure of it that night.
~ Amelia Earhart
Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.
~ Charlotte Bronte
Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.
~ Eli Broad
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
~ William Hazlitt
I think there can always be beauty in struggle.
~ Patricia Arquette
Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who arent exposed to creative music.
~ Charlie Haden
When you see beauty all around you, beauty will seek and find you, even in the most unexpected places.
~ Alberto Villoldo
The purpose of soul questions is to open yourself deeper and deeper until all that is left is the power and beauty you are bringing to the lives of others.
~ Gary Zukav
Beauty is in the eye of the Creator.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Catch the beauty of the moment!
~ Leo Buscaglia
You manufacture beauty with your mind
~ Augusten Burroughs
The key to education is the experience of beauty.
~ Friedrich Schiller
For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.
~ Charles Baudelaire
I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.
~ Russell Brand, My Booky Wook
with one image he would make that beauty explode into me.
~ Marcel Proust
I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative chessmaster.
~ Emanuel Lasker
I have found, beauty is the illumination of the mind.
~ John J. Geddes